General Assembly Plenary

Twenty-fifth Special Session

6^th Meeting (PM) and

 Round-up of Session

GENERAL ASSEMBLY RENEWS COMMITMENT TO PRINCIPLES OF HABITAT AGENDA,

PLEDGES ACCELERATED DRIVE TO ENSURE FULL IMPLEMENTATION

The Thematic Committee of the General Assembly’s special session this morning heard the final 3 of 16 case studies presented since it opened on Wednesday, with today’s focus on poverty eradication and projects in Thailand, Peru and Morocco.

General Assembly Plenary

Twenty-fifth Special Session

5^th Meeting (AM)

NEGATIVE IMPACT OF CONFLICT, NATURAL DISASTERS ON SETTLEMENT POLICIES

STRESSED AT GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION ON HABITAT AGENDA

UNITED NATIONS FORUM ON FORESTS TO MEET AT HEADQUARTERS 11-22 JUNE

The United Nations Forum on Forests will meet for the first time as a new subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at Headquarters from 11 to 22 June 2001.

UNITED NATIONS TELEVISION WINS AWARD AT CNN CONFERENCE

Ninth Time UNTV Has Been Honoured at Annual CNN World Report Conference

A news report produced by United Nations Television was recently honoured as the Best Science and Technology Report at the 12^th Annual CNN World Report Conference.

AMBASSADORS HOLBROOKE AND CHOWDHURY TO HELP LAUNCH NEW BOOK

ON CHANGING ROLES OF FAMILIES

“Families As We Are:  Conversations from Around the World”by Perdita Huston, with a foreword by Richard C. Holbrooke, is a collection of candid stories on today’s family unit, that include nuclear and single-parent families, polygamous, patriarchal and matriarchal, and same-sex couples who are all raising children in vastly different settings.

General Assembly Thematic Committee

Twenty-fifth Special Session

4^th Meeting (PM)

URBAN GOVERNANCE CASE STUDIES FROM BRAZIL, FRANCE, SPAIN, NIGERIA,

CONSIDERED IN HABITAT SPECIAL SESSION’S THEMATIC COMMITTEE

General Assembly Plenary

Twenty-fifth Special Session

4^th Meeting (PM)

General Assembly Thematic Committee

Twenty-fifth Special Session

3^rd Meeting (AM)

HABITAT SPECIAL SESSION’S THEMATIC COMMITTEE EXAMINES ENVIRONMENTAL

MANAGEMENT CASES STUDIES IN SWEDEN, CHINA, POLAND, TANZANIA